"Poinponos: Jiujuiqui, deep plum color; Pluie iVOr, dwarf yellow; Doctor Dural^ 

 reddish chestnut; Madame iioi/Sitc/oH, delicate peach; Hector^ dark oraiij,'e huff; Covute 

 Vlaicr, palo buff; Mdlle. Elhiugton., lino white; Rose Puinpone, quilled pale lilac; Jieine 

 Ji'S Anemonet^ tine white; Co/isuolo, yellow; Jkrrol, sulphur, sulViised with rose; John 

 Salter dark reddish orange; Brilliant, reddish scarlet; Bayardiere, butl", suffused with 

 silverv markings; Eosita, blush lilac; Precoce, deep rose; 3fon. Bijou, jialo fawn, shaded 

 with lilac. Hybrids, i. e. crosses between the Pompones and large-flowered kinds: Mara- 

 bout, fringed white; Ccdo Nulli, white, with brown center, a pretty kind ; Marccau, lilac- 

 tipped white; Bernard de Jienncs, d&rk fawn; Oolden Drop, yellow Anemone-flowered 

 sort; La Radieuse, rose with white center; Madmne Fimij, rose, shaded with lilac; 

 Aurare Boreale, yellowish buff; Berthile, lilac bordered white. These in general have 

 larger flowers than the Pompones." 



TR()r.Er)LUM PEREGRINUM AS A WINTER-FLOWERING PLANT. 



BY EDGAR SxVNDERS, GARDENER TO J. F. RATRBONE, ALBANY. 



Last year, I troubled you with a few remarks on the Tro2)oeolum Lohhianum as a win- 

 ter-flowering grecn-housG climber, and now beg to add a few more on another of the 

 same family — T. peregrinum, or Canary-Bird Flower, as it is commonlv called. Planted 

 in the open ground during summer, neither of tliese lovely httle gems flower to perfec- 

 tion, and scarcely at all till towards fall, when winter soon stops that little. They both 

 o-row witJi extreme vigor, and form immense foliage in summer, while the flowers are 

 scanty. In winter, the reverse takes place — leaves small, flowers abundant. The T. 

 Lohhiayiian is well known to flower splendidly during winter, but we do not remember 

 havin"- seen any notice of the other. From a trial this winter, we have every reason 

 to believe it is scarcely inferior; and if so, as yellow is a scarce color during winter, it 

 Avill form an acquisition. The two potted, and placed near a wall or other place, where 

 they can ha\ e an abundance of light, and allowed to mingle together, would form an 

 agreeable contrast in color and foliage, and both useful to cut from for boquets. 



Cuttings may be struck any time after mid-summer, so that strong healthy plants 

 can be secured by fall, when they should be potted into 8-inch pots, using turfy loam and 

 decayed manure — one-third of the latter to two of the former. A little sandy peat 

 mixed with it will be found beneficial, as also some charcoal. But little attention will 

 be requisite after, except regulating the shoots occasionally, and going over at least 

 weekly to cut out all decayed leaves and flowers, which would otherwise soon become 

 unsightly from their constantly becoming yellow. Plants raised from cuttings will be 

 found to flower sooner, and more profusely than if from seed. 



The temperature of the house should not fall below 45° at any time, while 50° will 

 be found to suit better — the flowers in a low temperature being mmh duller in color, 

 and the plants growing less, do not produce so many of them. Water should be given 

 liberally, whenever they require it; and when the plants have progressed sufficiently 

 to fill the pots with roots, should be occasionally watered with liquid manure water. 



